October 30, 2006

The Comedy Sensation of 2006!!!

Forget Kenny! Forget Borat! Hell, you can even forget Snakes on a Plane because I just watched the year's best comedy. Wow. Funny, funny stuff! Freedomland is hilarious! Whoever wrote this movie deserves a prize. That dialogue is just filled with zingy one-liners ("thanks a lot brotha-fucker" omglolz!!!!) and it's so based in reality that it just rings true. I mean, I could believe everything that was happening. Whoever's idea it was to make the lead detective character an asthmatic is a genius! What character development!!!

Of course, it wouldn't be anything without the delightful comedic work of actors such as Julianne Moore, Samuel L Jackson and Ron Eldard. Just watch the scene between Jackson and Moore as he interogates her about her child. The subtle nuances are just so compelling and all that hyperactive editing and ridiculous directing just makes it so much better. And Julianne Moore's method acting style (looking like a strung out coke addict who doesn't own a brush) was stunning. OSCAR!!! I must say though, shame on Edie Falco! She let the team down. I don't know what movie she thought she was in, but it's as if she's trying to make a serious and adult drama. Shame Falco, Shame!

And what of Joe Roth's directing? Wow. He really knows how to handle this movie that is a balancing act between madcap hyjinx comedy and absurdly overwrought drama. It could've gone the way of drama, but no - he stuck to his guns. Racial tension, abduction and domestic violence really is hysterical. He must've researched long and hard when preparing for this movie. Everybody involved (except Edie Falco) really puts in 110% to make this the most absurdly delirious comedy of the year.

...wait, what? It wasn't meant to be a comedy? Oh dear... If it wasn't supposed to a comedy then why I was Samuel's character nicknamed "Big Daddy"?

7 comments:

Barry said...

Ohh nooo! not you too! I am definitely in the minority of people who like Freedomland.

I thought Julianne Moore was amazing and like I said before her monologue towards the end is heartbreaking.

I also think that Edie Falco made this movie a really good one because of her monologue too.

Samuel L Jackson is excellent as always.

Sucks u didnt like it..

adam k. said...

I am NEVER seeing Freedomland. I refuse. Mostly because Julianne Moore with dishwater blonde hair is possible the most. terrible. thing. I've ever. seen. WHO was responsible for that??? They need to die.

Oh yeah, and apparently the movie around the hair is awful, too. So no thanks.

Glenn Dunks said...

It really is stunning in it's badness. Like, how on earth did it get so off track? I'm pretty sure Julianne's hair had something to do with it.

Barry said...

well your mom and your mom!

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